In which we are blessed...

For almost two years now, we've known that there were deer out in the woods behind our house (we live on a property that abuts dozens, if not hundreds of acres of nature conservation land.) However, with the exception of a young buck that crossed the road in front of the Valkyrie and I miles and miles away from our house one morning this spring while we were out garage saling, we hadn't seen a single deer in Easthampton in the two years we'd been here.

Until this morning.

I woke up ungodly early, unable to sleep. I started working on my current White Wolf project and when the Viking woke up at 5:30 or so, I was ready to take a break. I went down to make him breakfast and while I was emptying the dishwasher I looked out our kitchen window to see this regal young stag in our back yard. If you look carefully, you can see his shy mate just behind him and to the left under the canopy of the big pine at the end of our property.

I'm just... tickled... to have been visited now, less than two weeks before we'll be gone for good. It was just a blessing.

In which we seek information...

I'm late to the iPod craze, but the Viking just bought me one for our trip cross country. I love it muchly, but we're wanting some sort of a little docking station/speaker set to take with us to listen to in the hotel rooms as we cross country, and later for things like setting up at tables when I'm doing signings or at other times when we want decent quality speakers but in a very small and portable form.

Does anyone have a small docking station (preferably with a plug in and battery option) that they are pleased with, that they would recommend?